William de Ferrers

His wife is not known. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was William (c1240-1287).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

William de Ferrers (1193-1254)	William de Ferrers (c1167-1247)	William de Ferrers (c1136-c1179)	Robert de Ferrers (1090-c1160)
		William de Ferrers (c1136-c1179)	Margaret Peverell (c1114-1154)
		Sybil De Braose (c1149-1228)	William De Braose (1112-1192)	+
		Sybil De Braose (c1149-1228)	Bertha FitzMiles (c1125-1204)	+
	Agnes de Meshines (c1174-1247)

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Died about 28 Mar 1254 [uncertain] at about age 61 in Evington, Leicestershire, England

Brother of Agatha de Ferrers, Thomas de Ferrers, Hugh de Ferrers, Bertha Bigod, Robert de Ferrers and Sibyl de Vipont add sibling

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Father of Isabel Mohun, Agnes de Vescy, Joan de Mohun, Maud de Rochechouart, Sybil de Bohun, Agatha de Mortimer, Alice Whitmore, Eleanor de Leybourne, Robert Ferrers, Elizabeth Ferrers, William de Ferrers, Joan de Berkeley and Agnes de Muscegros add/edit children

He was an English nobleman and head of a family which controlled a large part of Derbyshire including an area known as Duffield Frith.

He was born in Derbyshire, England, the son of William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby and Agnes of Chester, a daughter of Hugh of Kevelioc, Earl of Chester, and Bertrada de Montfort.

He succeeded to the title in 1247,[1] on the death of his father and, after doing homage to King Henry III, he had livery of Chartley Castle and other lands of his mother's inheritance.

He accompanied King Henry to France in April 1230 [3] and sat in parliament in London in the same year. William was constable of Bolsover Castle from February of 1234/5 to July 1236. [3]

He had many favours granted to him by the king, among them the right of free warren in Beaurepair , Makeney, Winleigh , Holbrooke, Siward , Heyhegh Cortelegh , Ravensdale, Holland , and many other places.[4]

Like his father, he suffered from gout from youth, and always traveled in a litter. He was accidentally thrown from his litter into water, while crossing a bridge, at St Neots, in Huntingdon and although he escaped immediate death, yet he never recovered from the effects of the accident. [4]

He died on 28 March 1254, after only seven years, and was succeeded by his son Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby. [4]

William de Ferrers, buried 31 Mar 1254, Earl of Derby. [5] William is buried at Merevale Abbey, Warwickshire, England,[6] where there is an effigy of him.

William Ferrers married before 14 May 1219, Sibyl Marshal,[7] one of the daughters and co-heirs of William Marshal , 1st Earl of Pembroke. They had seven daughters:[8]

Maud Ferrers, , married Simon de Kyme, and William de Vivonia, and Amaury IX of Rochechouart.

Sibyl Ferrers, married Sir Francis or Franco de Bohun, an ancestor of Daniel Boone.

Eleanor Ferrers:, married William de Vaux; Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester; Roger de Leybourne

In 1238, William married Margaret de Quincy , daughter of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester and Helen of Galloway.[10] Bizarrely, Margaret was both the stepmother and stepdaughter of William's daughter, Eleanor. The earl and Margaret had the following children:

Mary de Lusignan, daughter of Hugh XI of Lusignan, Count of Angoulême, and niece of King Henry III, by whom he had no issue;

Alianore de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey VI de Bohun and Eleanor de Braose, [11].

William Ferrers: who obtained, by gift of Margaret, his mother, the manor of Groby in Leicestershire, assuming the arms of the family of De Quincy. He married:

Anne Durward, daughter of Alan Durward [12]; their son was William de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby.

Agnes Ferrers: married Sir Robert de Muscegros , Lord of Kemerton, Boddington & Deerhurst.

Elizabeth Ferrers: married William Marshal, 2nd Baron Marshal; Prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd

The fourth shield has—Ferrers of Chartley, impaled with arms which have now perished. The inscription says: “ William of Ferrers, Earle of Derby, maried Margaret, Lady of Groby, daughter of Robert Quincey, Earle of Winchester.” [13]

"William de Ferrers died in 1247 and was succeeded by his son William fifth Earl of Derby. As a favourite at the Court of Henry III he received many grants of privileges, including the right to free warren in Higham Ferrers in 1248, a yearly fair in 1250 and the erection of a borough in 1251.

"He died in 1254 and was succeeded by his son Robert sixth Earl of Derby, then under age and in the custody of Edward, the King's son." [14]

"The earl died in 1247, having predeceased his wife but a few weeks. That he was the builder of Liverpool Castle may be inferred from writs of 19 January, 1235, for an aid to be made to him for the strengthening of his castle of Liverpool, and of 10 November, 1247, directed to the escheator beyond Trent to deliver to William de Ferrers the lands which had been Agnes de Ferrers', and the castles of West Derby and Liverpool.

"In 1251 the new earl had a charter of free warren in all his demesne lands in the manors of Liverpool, West Derby, Everton, Great Crosby, and Wavertree. The same year he applied for leave to hold pleas of the forest in his forest between Ribble and Mersey, but there is no evidence that this was granted. In 1253 he was empleaded in the king's court by the men of the hundred for illegally forcing upon them a gryth-serjeant of his own election, whom they by custom ought to elect by the consent, and under the advice, of the sheriff. Process was terminated by the earl's death in 1254. From this time, until Robert, his son and heir, attained his majority, the land between Ribble and Mersey was committed to Edward the king's son. " [15]

"Robert de Ferrars, the last Earl of Derby, confirmed all the benefactions of his ancestors by charter, but by him the priory was pulled down in the year 1260, and was not rebuilt till theyear 1307, no doubt by the Earl of Lancaster." [16]

"I find also a confirmation made, per Rob'tum de Ferrariis, filium et haeredem [son and heir] nobilis viri Will'i de Ferrariis, comit. Derbies, Deo, et beatee Mariae, et ecclesie de Tutburie, et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus, de omnibus queecunque Hen. de Ferrariis fundator ejusdem ecclesiae, seu Engenulf de Ferrariis, vel Rob. de Ferrariis, vel al. Rob. de Ferrariis, vel Will'us de Ferrariis, vel al. Will'us de Ferrariis, avus suus, vel Will'us de Ferrariis, pater suus, sive aliquis antecessorum suorum dederunt." [17]

NUM I: "Carta Willielmi Comitis Ferrariis", "Roberto avunculo Comitis" [count's uncle], "Henrico fratre suo" [his brother], "Hugone fratre Comitis" [count's brother] [18]

↑ George Edward Cokayne, Vicary Gibbs & H.A. Doubleday, editor, Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Edition 2, Vol V Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat. Page 340, footnote . ; digital image. .

↑ 3.0 3.1 The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom extant, extinct, or dormant

↑ Transactions and Proceedings, Volumes 14-17, By Birmingham Archaeological Society, p 90 [1]

↑ "The borough of Higham Ferrers," in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page , 263-279. British History Online, accessed March 16, 2017, [2].

↑ "Hundred of West Derby: Introduction," in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill , 1-4. British History Online, accessed March 16, 2017, [3].

↑ An historical description of Tutbury Castle and Priory, with some account of the town and neighbourhood, p 69 [4]

↑ A Survey of Staffordshire: Containing the Antiquities of that County, p 525 [5]

Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham , Vol. II p. 150-153.

!Source: William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Ferrers,_5th_Earl_of_Derby

William III de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby of Chartley Castle in Staffordshire, was an English nobleman and major landowner, unable through illness to take much part in national affairs. From his two marriages, he left numerous children who married into noble and royal families of England, France, Scotland and Wales.

He was the son and heir of William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby , by his wife Agnes de Kevelioc, a daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester .

In 1230 he accompanied King Henry III to France and attended Parliament in London in the same year. Like his father, he suffered from gout from youth and after the 1230s took little part in public affairs, travelling always in a litter. He was accidentally thrown from his litter into the River Great Ouse while crossing a bridge at St Neots in Huntingdonshire and, although he escaped death, never recovered from the effects of the accident. He succeeded to the title of his father in 1247, but only lived another seven years, dying on 28 March 1254.

Unable to play any part at court or at war, he followed his father in managing the family's landholdings. Their original lands were centred on Tutbury Castle, stretching beyond Staffordshire into the south of Derbyshire and the west of Nottinghamshire. The death in 1232 of his uncle Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, brought him vast new estates, including Chartley Castle in Staffordshire, much of Lancashire between the Rivers Ribble and Mersey and many manors in Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire. He continued the policy of encouraging the growth of towns and markets, exploiting the forests of Needwood and Duffield Frith, and taking advantage of rising prices in commodities and land values. By the time of his death his income placed him among the top six English nobles, but he also left his son considerable debts.[2]

He married Sibyl Marshal, a daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, by his wife Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke, by whom he had seven daughters:

Isabel de Ferrers , who married Gilbert Basset, of Wycombe, and Reginald II de Mohun, feudal barony of Dunster in Somerset, father-in-law of her sister Joan.

Maud de Ferrers , who married Simon de Kyme , William de Vivonne , and Amaury IX, Viscount of Rochechouart.

Sibyl de Ferrers, who married Frank de Bohun, of Midhurst, great-nephew of Savaric FitzGeldewin;[3]

Sir John de Mohun, master of Dunster , with John de Mohun , feudal baron of Dunster as probable issue; and

Eleanor de Ferrers married William de Vaux, in about 1252 Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, and in about 1265 Roger de Leybourne.

He married in 1238 Margaret or Margery de Quincy , daughter and heiress of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, by his wife Helen of Galloway. When Margaret's father married Eleanor de Ferrers , she became both step-mother and step-daughter of Eleanor. By Margaret de Quincy he had two sons and three daughters:

Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby , eldest son and heir, who married firstly Mary de Lusignan, a daughter of Hugh XI de Lusignan, Count of Angoulême, and a niece of King Henry III. He married in 1269 Eleanor de Bohun, daughter of Sir Humphrey V de Bohun, of Kimbolton Castle, by his wife Eleanor de Braose.[2]

William de Ferrers ,[4] of Groby in Leicestershire, younger son, who having been granted by his mother Groby Castle, founded the junior line of Ferrers of Groby. He married firstly Anne Durward, possibly the widow of Colbán, Earl of Fife and a daughter of Alan Durward, by whom he had issue:

William Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby , who assumed the arms of de Quincy in lieu of his paternal arms;[5]

He married Eleanor de Lovaine, a daughter of Matthew de Lovaine, who after her husband's death was abducted by and married to William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas.

Joan de Ferrers , who married Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire;

Agnes de Ferrers, who married Sir Robert de Musgrove, of Kemerton, Boddington & Deerhurst John FitzReginald.

Elizabeth de Ferrers, who married William Marshal, killed at the Battle of Evesham in 1265 Dafydd ap Gruffydd, a prince of Gwynedd.

He died on 28 March 1254 and was buried in Merevale Abbey, Warwickshire. He was succeeded by his 15-year-old eldest son Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby , still a minor, who in 1249 aged 10 had been married to Mary de Lusignan, a niece of King Henry III, and knighted. His wardship was granted to the King's eldest son, the future King Edward I. William's first wife's great estates in Ireland passed to her seven daughters and their heirs.

William de Ferrers

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